design PORTFOLIO michael bruny-groth 7086 W. KL. Ave. apt #6, Kalamazoo, MI 49009 269.783.6771 michael.bruny.groth@gmail.com michaelbruny-groth.com
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ABAI 2013 Convention, Minneapolis
In this system for the Association for Behavior Analysis International’s 2013 convention in Minneapolis Minnesota a wooden model was photographed with items representing popular landmarks in the city. Intern I, Fall 2011
Reaction & Response
The Dada movement was a reaction to the horrors of WWI. The Dadaists responded socially and politically. Cultural Context of Graphic Design, Spring 2011
Schreiber Conference
Identity and system for the Alzheimer’s Association’s Great Lakes Chapter’s Schreiber Conference. The conference focuses on caregiving and professional support. Intern II, Spring 2012
National Audubon Society Field Guide Covers
These covers for the Audubon Field Guides reduces the expansive wilderness the books capture to its most intimate level, as intimate as the care taken in creating the guides. Design Applications, Spring 2011
Knight Watch Inc.
In my two year internship with Knight Watch Inc. I rebranded the company, and designed materials including business systems, sales materials, online forms, and vehicle decals. Knight Watch Inc, 2011
KWI Technologies Brand
This brand was developed for a subsidiary of Knight Watch Inc., KWI Technologies. The company develops installs and maintains Integrated building automation systems. Knight Watch Inc, 2010
ambitious
innovative
R3M’s machines come in three different colors, each of which are vibrant and attractive to consumers. The colors, yellow-green, white, and gold symbolize the three R’s in R3M’s tagline, recycle, redeem, and reward respectively.
ecoATM Rebrand
This project is a semester long rebrand of an environmentally sustainable company. Intensive research and a differential study were employed to enhance the sustainable aspects of the company’s brand. Advanced Problems, Fall 2011
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CEO Tom Tullie
ento Pkwy 10515 Vista Sorr fornia 92121 San Diego, Cali
p: 650.743.0870 ttullie@r3m.com
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R3M.COM
February 2, 2011 Tom Tullie ecoATM 10515 Vista Sorrento Parkway San Diego, CA 92121 Dear Tom Tullie: Over the past four months I have studied your company and its brand. I am smitten with your service and the innovation your company brings to eWaste management and the green movement as a whole. I strongly believe in your company and its goals. Because I believe so strongly in ecoATM, I have spent 15 weeks assessing your brand. Firstly, such an amazing machine that provides the invaluable service that the ecoATM offers should be everywhere. ecoATMs should be in every town, city, and state across the nation. An expanding brand needs a strong mission and an equally strong visual identity. The brand I have created promotes a mission that is forever; ending the wasteful life-cycle of consumer electronics forever, making reducing eWaste sustainable, convenient, and rewarding forever, and expanding the enterprise for consumers, manufacturers, and the environment, forever. ecoATM is an incredibly green company. With that being said a company does not to be painted green to communicate that identity. Greenness is essential to the brand, but so is the technological aspect of your company. My brand proposal for your company communicates the company’s sustainable practices through its name R3M. The acronym stands for the three R’s of recycling and the M stands for machine. The tag line of the new brand (recycle: redeem rewards) exclaims that if a consumer use our service, not only will they be recycling but they will also be rewarded for doing so. I believe this message is pivotal to the company’s essence. Its appeal is that everyone benefits. Even if the average consumer is not green-savvy, they understand rewards. The brand communicates the advanced technology ecoATM employs and develops through its forms. The customized typeface I have developed communicates a bold permanent technological force, while the name illustrates the companies sustainable essence and goals.
R3M’s mission is
I deeply respect your company and hope that this brand proposal will enhance your company’s success.
FOREVER.
Sincerely,
end the wasteful life-cycle of consumer electronics
Michael Bruny-Groth
ento Pkwy 10515 Vista Sorr fornia 92121 San Diego, Cali R3M.COM
p: 650.743.0870 f: 650.821.0447
make reducing eWaste sustainable, convenient, and rewarding expand our enterprise for consumers, manufacturers, and the environment
Publication: 21v1
These two spreads are for a self published class magazine about the first decade of the new millennium. Typography III, Spring 2011
Differential Tuition Interactive Infographic
An informative interactive animation created in Adobe Flash with Actionscript 3.0 to explain differential tuition in the College of Fine Arts at Western Michigan University. Special Topics New Media, Fall 2011
Justified:
Weighing Desisions, Finding Solutions
Justified was the senior BFA exhibition for graphic design students at Western Michigan University. I created the Initial concept, and was lead exhibition designer, planner, and installation designer. Graduation Presentation, Spring 2012
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Intographics merge the information landscapes of infographics with the interactivity of a videogame by placing user controlled avatars into infographics. Senior Projects, Spring 2012
Traditional non-interactive infographics require that the user remain engaged over a long visual distance. I propose completely emerging the user in the information through a new form of interactive infographic, called intographics. Intographics merge the information landscapes of infographics with the interactivity of a videogame by placing user controlled avatars into infographics.
design PORTFOLIO michael bruny-groth 7086 W. KL. Ave. apt #6, Kalamazoo, MI 49009 269.783.6771 michael.bruny.groth@gmail.com michaelbruny-groth.com